Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Ankara will lay siege to Afrin in northern Syria, a month after Ankara launched an offensive against Kurdish militia in the region. “In the coming days, swiftly, we will lay siege to the centre of the town of Afrin,” Erdogan told ...
The Turkish foreign minister has commented on recent reports made by Syrian state TV that pro-Syrian government forces would enter Syria’s Afrin “within hours.” “We have started an operation in Afrin in order to get rid of the threat to our national security. We still insist on this,” Turkish Foreign ...